Today’s post, Argument Screens Off Authority was originally published on 14 December
How fitting that one of the posts I refer to most often happens to have been published on my birthday.
In all seriousness, this is basic Bayesianism, but it is tremendously important. I would like to see more of this type of post here, i.e. the probability-theoretic foundation of the basic rules of logic (and corresponding fallacies) laid out explicitly. My own Inherited Improbabilities falls into this category.
How fitting that one of the posts I refer to most often happens to have been published on my birthday.
In all seriousness, this is basic Bayesianism, but it is tremendously important. I would like to see more of this type of post here, i.e. the probability-theoretic foundation of the basic rules of logic (and corresponding fallacies) laid out explicitly. My own Inherited Improbabilities falls into this category.